Patents Assigned to SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
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Patent number: 12650796Abstract: The invention includes a camera that captures an image of a user, a first estimation unit that estimates attributes of the user included in the image captured by the camera, an extraction unit that extracts candidates from among services corresponding to the estimated attributes on the basis of an availability status of each service time frame, and a display control unit that displays the extracted candidates on a display screen.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2024Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.Inventor: Keita Sano
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Patent number: 12591315Abstract: A display device includes a display processing unit configured to display character input buttons, each of which is assigned a plurality of characters, and an order designation button for designating the order of a character capable of being input among the characters assigned to the character input button, an order designation unit configured to designate the order of the character capable of being input among the characters assigned to the character input button every time a button corresponding to the order designation button among buttons on an operation terminal is pressed, and an input character acquisition unit configured to acquire the character corresponding to the order designated by the order designation unit among the characters assigned to the character input button corresponding to the pressed button as an input character when the button corresponding to the character input button among the buttons on the operation terminal is pressed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Michitaka Naitou
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Patent number: 12557188Abstract: Disclosed is a light source driving device (20) for driving a plurality of light emitting element groups in a light source device that outputs combined light obtained by combining light emitted from the light emitting element groups, the light source driving device including a control circuit (201) that supplies a current that alternately repeats a first period in which a first current is supplied and a second period in which a second current having a current value different from a current value of the first current is supplied to the plurality of light emitting element groups, the second current being supplied to a second light emitting element group in a case where the first current is being supplied to a first light emitting element group, and the first current being supplied to the second light emitting element group in a case where the second current is being supplied to the first light emitting element group, wherein a target value of a light intensity obtained by the combined light is a light intensityType: GrantFiled: January 17, 2024Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Hiraga
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Patent number: 12487785Abstract: An information processing device includes a first display control unit configured to display together first content and second content, which is different from the first content, together, in a display area of a display unit. The information processing device further includes an identification unit configured to identify third content and fourth content on the basis of a viewing action for the first content and the second content. The information processing device further includes a second display control unit configured to display, in the display area, the third content as identified and the fourth content as identified. A degree of relevance between the third content and the fourth content is lower than a degree of relevance between the third content and the first content.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2024Date of Patent: December 2, 2025Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Eisaku Ishii
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Patent number: 12477088Abstract: An electronic device includes an illumination optical system for outputting light to the projection lens, a blower for cooling a liquid crystal panel mounted on the illumination optical system, a first duct for guiding the air blown out from the blower to the liquid crystal panel, a second duct for guiding the air passing through the liquid crystal panel in the direction opposite to the direction of the air blown out from the blower and a heat sink for removing heat from the air passing through the second duct, and a holding member for holding the blower and guiding the air from which heat has been removed by the heat sink to the air inlet of the blower is provided in a dust-proof case.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 18, 2025Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Ryosuke Kawase
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Patent number: 12456133Abstract: A display control device includes: an attribute information acquiring unit configured to acquire first attribute information indicating attributes of a person who is operating an operation terminal displaying commodity information in response to an operation on the basis of a first image obtained by imaging the person using a first imaging device provided in the operation terminal and to acquire second attribute information indicating attributes of a person included in a second image captured by a second imaging device provided in a display device different from the operation terminal on the basis of the second image; an operation information acquiring unit configured to acquire operation information indicating the commodity information displayed on the operation terminal from the operation terminal; a content selecting unit configured to select content on the basis of the acquired first attribute information, the acquired second attribute information, and the acquired operation information; and a display conType: GrantFiled: December 22, 2023Date of Patent: October 28, 2025Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.Inventor: Yasunobu Kaneko
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Patent number: 12455541Abstract: The equipment management device includes an information collection unit, a specific state detection unit, a cause estimation unit, and a countermeasure process execution unit. The information collection unit acquires a video of a conference room or a sound of the conference room. The specific state detection unit detects that equipment provided in the conference room is in a specific state on the basis of a result of analyzing the video or the sound. The cause estimation unit acquires equipment information about the equipment when the equipment has been detected to be in the specific state and estimates a cause of the specific state on the basis of the equipment information. The countermeasure process execution unit selects and executes a countermeasure process to be executed on the basis of the estimated cause.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 28, 2025Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.Inventor: Kazuya Honma
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Patent number: 12423982Abstract: A data processing device is a device that detects an abnormality in a facility disposed in a room or a sign thereof and includes an acquisition unit and a processing unit. The acquisition unit acquires processing target data. The processing target data is generated by recording an audio or a video inside the room. The processing unit processes a part of the processing target data (hereinafter, referred to as a processing target part) for generating facility information relating to a facility disposed inside the room. Then, the processing unit detects a reference timing that is a timing satisfying a reference condition set in advance and sets the processing target part using the reference timing.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 23, 2025Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Hata, Eisaku Ishii
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Patent number: 12413803Abstract: A signage player includes: a time function configured to count an internal device time. The signage player also includes a time correction calculator configured to acquire a reference time from the outside, for example, an NTS server, at a timing determined in advance and synchronize the internal device time with the reference time; and a time corrector configured to calculate a time correction coefficient defined using a change rate of a time difference, an error change rate (?) between the reference time and the internal device time at a timing different from the timing determined in advance and calculate a corrected time acquired by correcting the internal device time using the time correction coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: September 9, 2025Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.Inventor: Eisaku Ishii
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Patent number: 12405522Abstract: A light source device includes a first laser source and a diffusion element that diffuses light, the diffusion element being provided on an optical path of a first laser beam emitted by the first laser source. The diffusion element comprises, on an incident surface, a first lens array in which a plurality of first lens elements are arranged that divide the first laser beam into a plurality of light beams and further comprises, on an exit surface, a second lens array in which a plurality of second lens elements are arranged that each face a respective first lens element of the plurality of first lens elements and that each emit a light beam incident through the facing first lens element toward an imaging surface. Each second lens element forms a light source image in a different region on the imaging surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 2, 2025Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Sota Hirahara, Masateru Matsubara
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Patent number: 12323663Abstract: Systems and methods relate to targeted display of media content, including a system that includes at least one processor configured to execute program instructions to implement a device and a content management system (CMS) and control the system to: send, by the device and to the CMS, a plurality of signals each triggering the CMS to play on a first display that is local to and separate from the device, a respective one of a plurality of media content of a playlist including a first media content, each of the plurality of signals sent at a different time while the first media content of the playlist is played on the first display, and ignore, by the CMS, each of the plurality of signals received prior to a first predetermined time of the played first media content of the playlist.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2023Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Richard Ventura, Hiroyuki Kasuga, Steven Keith Platt
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Patent number: 12283221Abstract: A display control device includes a visual field determination unit configured to determine whether or not a display device for displaying content is included in a visual field of a person included in an image captured by an imaging device that images a region around the display device, a central visual field determination unit configured to determine whether or not the display device is included in a central visual field within the visual field, and a change determination unit configured to determine whether or not to temporarily change a display mode of the display device displaying first content before the content is switched from the first content displayed on the display device to second content to be subsequently displayed when it is determined that the display device is included in the visual field but is not included in the central visual field.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Eisaku Ishii
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Patent number: 12250432Abstract: Systems and methods relate to display of insights, including a method including: causing a user display to display a graphical user interface (GUI) that enables a user to select a time range and a single digital display as a locale; and causing, based on the user selecting the time range and the single digital display as the locale, the user display to display, on the GUI, a list of a plurality of media content that have been displayed on the single digital display, each of the plurality of media content being ordered according to analysis insight for the single digital display selected and the time range selected. The analysis insight may include at least opportunity to see (OTS) counts of the plurality of media content on one or more digital displays associated with the locale.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Richard Ventura, Hiroyuki Kasuga, Steven Keith Platt
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Patent number: 12248236Abstract: An image display device is provided that allows easy adjustment of positional deviation in an optical axis direction of an optical modulation element from the outside. The image display device includes: a housing including an operation surface; an optical modulation element that is housed in the housing and that includes an image-forming surface that modulates light to form an image; a holding portion that movably holds the optical modulation element at least in a direction perpendicular to the image-forming surface; and an adjusting portion including at least one wire member, one end of the wire member being connected to the holding portion and the other end rotatably attached to the operation surface. Holding portion includes a movable portion that is moved in a direction perpendicular to the image-forming surface by the rotation of the other end of the wire member.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.Inventor: Yuichi Kato
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Patent number: 12165551Abstract: An electronic device includes: a first circuit including: a transmission port through which data is transmitted; and a reception port through which data is received and configured to be able to perform data communication with a second circuit through the transmission port and the reception port, wherein the first circuit includes an inspection processor configured to determine whether a detection signal indicating that the second circuit is able to communicate with the first circuit has been detected when data communication with the second circuit is not possible and to determine whether a potential of a reception signal line connected between the reception port and the second circuit is in a state in which communication is possible when the detection signal has not been detected.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Shigeki Kitaura
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Patent number: 12141719Abstract: A display management device includes an acquisitioner and a data processor. The acquisitioner acquires occupancy request information from a first terminal. The occupancy request information indicates that a request is made to display content on a plurality of displays positioned in a first region. When the acquisitioner acquires the occupancy request information, the data processor generates a available time display data using a display information storage and transmits same to the first terminal. The display information storage stores information relating to available time of the plurality of displays positioned in the first region. The available time display data is data for displaying a screen which shows availability information including the number of displays which can be reserved and/or the occupancy rate thereof for each time period.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Eifu Nezu
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Patent number: 12131089Abstract: A display control system includes a personal attribute information acquirer, a content specifier, and a display output. The personal attribute information acquirer acquires personal attribute information indicating an attribute of people present in an area including a vicinity of a display area for displaying video content based on a captured image of the area. The content specifier specifies target video content items, which are video content items to be displayed on the display area, based on the personal attribute information. The display output sets a plurality of screen areas in the display area based on the number of the target video content items and allocates and outputs the target video content items to the plurality of screen areas.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Ryoichi Araki
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Patent number: 12019360Abstract: A chromaticity adjusting method of a projector includes a first light source for emitting blue light and a second light source for emitting yellow light including red light and green light. A chromaticity value of the blue light is acquired and the chromaticity value and the luminance value of each of the red light and the green light is obtained. The second target chromaticity value is determined based on the first target chromaticity value, the chromaticity value of the blue light, and the chromaticity value and the luminance value of each of the red light and the green light. Light quantities of the first and second light sources are controlled based on the second target chromaticity value. Signal levels of the red, green, and blue color components included in the video signal are controlled according to the difference between the first target chromaticity value and the second target chromaticity value.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Kaoru Ito
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Patent number: 11984060Abstract: A display control device includes: a photodetection sensor configured to detect light from pixels of display screens with both a first display device and a second display device with a pixel size different from that of the first display device in a display system in which a video signal is displayed on a plurality of display devices adjacent to each other as detection targets; and a display adjustor configured to determine a degree of enlargement or reduction of video signals displayed on the display devices on the basis of a difference between the pixel size of the first display device and the pixel size of the second display device based on a result of detection from the photodetection sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Isamu Kenmochi
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Patent number: 11973420Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a voltage supply device including: a controller which outputs a signal indicating any one bus voltage determined by negotiation among a plurality of bus voltages from a power supply circuit to an external device; a reference voltage generation unit which generates a reference voltage corresponding to the signal; a detection voltage output unit which detects the bus voltage and outputs a detection voltage; a comparison unit which compares the detection voltage with the reference voltage; and a switch unit which switches the supply state of the bus voltage to the external device in response to the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Yuta Nagano